police literally caught the crooks napping. >> this is a place for kids and this is a community place. >> reporter: a children's theater where kids as young as 7 have been hard at work rehearsing for their holiday show. it's the last place you'd think thieves would target. >> the hallway was totally messed up. the offices, things were thrown off the desk. >> reporter: but that's how natalia found it ransacked and robbed. everybody from costumes to set pieces pillaged. what employees never expected to find was the thieves themselves hiding out in the theater. >> falling asleep at the scene of the crime really isn't the smartest thing to do. >> reporter: and yet that's exactly how luna discovered one of the thieves. >> where the tubber wear lids are, that's where i saw the person's head. >> reporter: it appeared he had taken a nap after his rampage. a second thief was found asleep in the car outside the theater, surrounded by the items. the thieves left empty bottles of alcohol in the theater. they stole expensive keyboards that the kids needed for their performance. police still have n